VALORIA WILDEROSE
"Y-You're c-craz-y." I chuckle nervously, realizing what she's asking of me.
It's impossible to take down everyone in her path—that many women? Before I could even move to the second, I'd be figured out and executed—if at all I'm crazy enough to agree to her offer.
"Am I? It's the perfect plan, and you'd die either way. I have a perfect reputation to maintain, and yours is already shit and pitiful. You're already close to Calliope; you need only feed her something poisoned and she'd be gone."
"I-If I'd d-die eith-ther way, I'd m-much ra-rather take m-my chances."
"You still don't realize what this is." Her smile slowly fades as she draws closer.
Her heels click against the brick floors, echoing through the empty space around us. Each step feels like a countdown to something terrible.
"You don't have a choice."
